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Possible RESOURCES. which ones do you think will best give you the answers to your questions?

  • Library On-Line Catalog- remember to use keywords and also that information about your explorer could be in a general book on explorers or in a book on the history of a particular country, or in a science history book

  • Web-Path Searches with Library On-Line Catalog
  • Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
  • Newsbank KidsPage: (Requires User Name & Password) Articles explore events and facts about plants, animals, fossils, science, math, the earth, health, sports, people, arts, geography, and important problems.


Teachers, don't forget about the JASON Project.


After you click on the name of the video you will need to enter the user name and password for United Streaming.

Exploring the World: The Age of Exploration Begins (13 min.) The Age of Discovery (23 min.)
The New World Explored (26 min.) John Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, Hernando De Soto, Cabeza De Vaca, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain.
Portuguese Explorers (13 min.)
The New World Encountered (26 min.) Columbus, Cabot, Prince Henry, Leif Ericson, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Ponce de Leon and Panfilo de Narvaez.
World Exploration During the Rennaissance (2 min.)
Exploring the World: Spanish Explorers of North America (20 min.)

Ferdinand Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World (17 min.)
The Effects of European Exploration on the New World (00:31)
 The Conquistadors and the Aztecs (15 min.) The Viking Explorers (21 min.)
Challenging Geography: Explorers Discover America (18 min.)

Explorers and Fur Traders of the American West (15 min.) Lewis & Clark
The Oregon Trail (18 min.)
Westward Strategy: The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (26 min.)
Space Exploration: The Rockets (23 min.)
Destination: Mars (50 min.)
Apollo 11 Multimedia from NASA (many clips including "One Step"
Space Exploration (20 min.)

Websites about explorers and exploration

  • All Explorers










  • John Cabot



  • Pedro Alvarez Cabral


  • Jacques Cartier






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  • Jacques Cousteau


  • Marie Curie


  • Vasco da Gama


  • Leonardo Da Vinci



  • Albert Einstein


  • Erik the Red


  • Sir John Franklin



  • Galileo Galilei

Sven Anders Hedin




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  • Matthew Henson


  • Thor Heyerdahl


  • Sir Edmund Hillary



  • Henry Hudson


  • Insulin (Frederick Banting)


  • Mae Jemison




  • David Livingstone




  • Mars Explorer - Opportunity



  • Mars Explorer - Spirit




  • Isaac Newton




Louis Pasteur



  • Robert Peary






  • Sally Ride


  • Sacajawea



  • Jonas Salk



  • Ernest Shackleton


  • Heinrich Schliemann


Amerigo Vespucci* Site #1